>>104568266>but at the end of the day it's a lighthearted story about a timid, simple Hobbit getting swept up in an adventure in contrast to LOTR and especially ROTK's grand, serious epic fantasy drama.The R/B ROTK gets points for trying to distill the book down to just the Frodo and Sam elements and only include as much of the stuff with other characters as absolutely necessary. Legolas and Gimli vanish and Aragorn is virtually a non-character. I swear, if hobbits Merry and Pippin hadn't been at Gondor they'd have never bothered switching to those scenes at all and just hyper-focused on Frodo and Sam in Mordor.
Funny, R/B tried to "Hobbitize" ROTK while Jackson tried to "LOTRize" The Hobbit. Neither work as a result, though I think the R/B ROTK is less spectacularly awful because at the end of the day it's only 79 minutes long and when viewed as just a clip reel highlighting important moments from ROTK, it isn't so bad.
